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Michael Jones-Correa (PhD Princeton) is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the former, founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught previously at Harvard and at Cornell, where he served as the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government. He is a co-author of Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants (Russell Sage 2020), Latinos in the New Millennium (Cambridge, 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple, 2010), the author of Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell, 1998), the editor of Governing American Cities: Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition and Conflict (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001) and co-editor of Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford 2013. He has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science and the Social Science Quarterly, among other journals.

Jones-Correa is a co-PI of the 2006 Latino National Survey, a national state-stratified survey of Latinos in the United States; the 2012 and 2016 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, and the Philadelphia-Atlanta Project, a collaborative research project on contact, trust and civic participation among immigrant and native-born residents of Philadelphia and Atlanta. His research has received support from the Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Robert Wood Johnson, Russell Sage and National Science foundations, among others.
Jones-Correa was the team leader and ISS fellow for the 2010-2013 theme project “Immigration: Settlement, Immigration and Membership,” at the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell. Jones-Correa has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation 1998-1999, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2003-2004, and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University in 2009-2010, as well as being appointed as the John L. Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress in 2023. In 2004-2005 he served on the Committee on the Redesign of US Naturalization Test for the National Academy of Sciences, in 2009 was elected as vice president of the American Political Science Association, from 2010-2013 served on the American National Election Studies (ANES) Board of Overseers, and from 2016-2020 on the council of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Geography PhD student at Queen Mary University of London, working on international migration and family dynamics in South America. Prior to that, has acted as Population Data and Research advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) where was responsible for operational research, needs-assessments, and monitoring and evaluation, mainly in projects related to human mobility. Holds a M.A in Demography from the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar) and a B.A in International Relations.

"I am a multitalented professional with a diverse range of skills and experiences, as a dynamic and versatile skilled Migration Consultant. I am the founder of Agnez International, which is an agency that helps overseas nurses with their registration and education in various countries worldwide. Additionally, I am a Member of United Nation Network on Migration and also a Member of International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE). My Migration Research Hub ID: 4077. I successfully completed the IOM E-Campus and also United Nations The Essentials of Migration Management (EMM2.0) Programme, which offers many types of Migration courses through the International Organization for Migration (IOM). and successfully obtained degree-level certificates. First, I successfully obtained my Recruitment Skills degree-level certificate from Oxford Home Study Centre (OHSC), United Kingdom. I am finally graduated as a recruitment consultant and also graduated Basics of International Law from Alison University of Ireland. I also completed two certified courses from the World Health Organization (WHO). First one is Migration and Health: Enhancing Intercultural Competence and Diversity Sensitivity. Another one is WHO Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Emergencies. also got two Badges from the World Health Organization (WHO). I am also a travel expert and a mountaineer. I am passionate about assisting overseas nurses in achieving their career goals and pursuing their dreams."

Yowali Kabamba has been a PhD candidate in Economic and Social History at Utrecht University since October 2023. She studies the labour integration of Somali migrant women in Western Europe and how home and host country contexts influence their sustainable economic participation. She previously worked at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies at Liège University. She obtained a Master's degree in International Political Economy (King's College London) and a Bachelor's degree in European Studies (Maastricht University).

Paweł Kaczmarczyk is director of the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. His main research areas include causes and consequences of labour migration, mobility of the high-skilled, migration and the welfare state, migration policy, methodology of migration research, labour economics, population economics and demography, and international economics.

Thomas G. Kalunge (Strategy advisor/Agile Project Management, r0g_agency) is Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Scientist and practitioner (M.Sc.) as well as a certified design thinking expert. With the User-centered approach, Thomas’s work focuses on Agile project management, Innovation Management, and diaspora involvement in transformative development in host and countries of origin. Currently, Thomas leads the project Migrant Media Network #MMN. This project uses digital online and offline tools to ensure factual information on migration decisions. It aims to promote dialog at household and community level on safe migration and positive alternatives. He also works with r0g_agency on program and strategy development for various projects and programs. As freelance consultant Thomas advices on aspects such as transnational entrepreneurship, Innovation and Migration Management as well on Agile Project Management, Alingment and Evaluation

International postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, the University of St. Gallen. I received a BA degree in philosophy and
sociology from the University of Banja Luka (2008), a joint master's degree in global studies
from the University of Vienna and University of Leipzig (2010), and a PhD degree in Balkan
Studies at the University of Ljubljana (2017). I worked as outreach workers for hard-to-
reach social groups such as sex workers and registered civil victims from the war 1992-1995
in Croatia (Documenta, 2012). I published several journal articles and book chapters
dealing with contemporary working-class culture, informal construction, labor migration
(gastarbajteri), popular music and queer audiences, and vernacular commemoration
practices. My research project at the University of St.Gallen explores how labor
migrants from former Yugoslavia use mobilities to construct spaces and new forms of
belonging. (miso.kapetanovic@unisg.ch)

Dženeta Karabegović is based in the Division of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Salzburg. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick (2017) where she worked on an ERC funded project, Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.

Her wider research interests and academic publications are rooted in international relations and political sociology with a particular focus on transnationalism, diaspora, migration, human rights, transitional justice, foreign policy, and the Balkans. She has done consulting work with local and international organizations focused on diasporas and development, returnees, social inclusion, civil society, education, and countering extremism and has collaborated with the Post-Conflict Research Center for multiple years. She currently serves as the Program Co-Chair for the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).

She was an Assistant Professor at International Burch University in Sarajevo, Lecturer at the Sarajevo School for Science and Technology, a Guest Researcher at Mid-Sweden University’s Forum for Gender Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Previously, she was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala University in Sweden.

She holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and completed her B.A. (Hons) at the University of Vermont in Political Science and German with a Holocaust Studies minor.

Her academic work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals and she has a co-edited volume (with Jasmin Hasić) on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign policy since independence with Palgrave (2019) and a co-edited volume (with Maria Koinova) on diasporas and transitional justice with Routledge (2020).

A researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. An Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Holds a PhD in Comparative Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. A co-editor of “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics”, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030120917